Pavetta. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 175 
when expanded exclusive of the style, subsessile or very shortly 
pedicellate, many together in globose terminal sessile clusters; brac- 
teoles below the pedicels. Calyx turbinate, glabrous, nearly } in. long; 
limb ? in. long ; lobes 3 in. long, filiform-subulate from an ovate base. 
Corolla glabrous outside ; tube thinly pubescent inside from the mouth 
half way down; lobes oval, mucronate, 7%; in. long. Anthers } in. 
long, exserted ; filaments compressed horizontally, lanceolate, 4; in. 
long, recurved. Disk glabrous, annular, fleshy. Style exserted by 
13-2 in., glabrous except the narrowly fusiform obtuse undivided 
puberulous stigma. 
Lower Guinea. Loango, Soyauzr ! 
17. P. hispida, Hiern. A shrub, 6-8 feet high, hispid on the 
branches, petioles, leaves, calyces, etc., with dull-tawny hairs. Leaves 
elliptical or somewhat obovate, acuminate or cuspidate, wedge-shaped 
at the base, with scattered short hispid hairs above, more densely hispid 
beneath especially on the midrib and on the 13-15 pairs of lateral veins, 
chartaceous, 5-11 by 12-32 in. ; petiole 1-1 in. Flowers tetramerous, 
i+ in. long when expanded exclusive of the style, on short hispid 
bracteolate pedicels, in rather dense sessile terminal subglobose 
branched cymes of about 5 in. diameter, bracteoles linear-subulate, 
like the calyx-lobes. Calyx nearly the length of the corolla-tube, 
green, deeply lobed ; lobes erect. Corolla glabrous throughout, mem- 
nous, white; lobes 2 in. long, ovate-oblong, apiculate, spreading, 
equalling the tube. Anthers scarcely } in. long; filaments 4 in. long. 
Disk glabrous. Ovary short, turbinate, 2-celled ; style exserted by 1} 
in, glabrous, rather tapering upwards, undivided; ovules solitary, 
‘mersed in the fleshy placentas. Fruit nearly 4 in. diameter; endo- 
“arp papery ; seed 1 in. diameter. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
18. P, senipefolia, Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 78 (1827), non 
Benth, Branchlets terete, hollow, hispid-pubescent, at length glabrate. 
Leaves elliptical, acuminate, obliquely attenuate at the base, chartaceous, 
tather shining and at first hirsute-pubescent, at length glabrate and 
subscabrous above, hirsute especially on the veins beneath, 3-9 by 1-3 
in. ; lateral veins about 7-9 pairs; petiole 4-1 in., subterete, hirsute ; 
stipules connate below, pubescent, terminating in a long setaceous 
acumen, altogether 8-8 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, % in. long when 
oeanded exclusive of the style, on short hirsute pedicels which are 
®bracteolate except the base, many together in dense abbreviated brac- 
cate and bracteolate sessile or subsessile globose panicles of 2-4 in. 
Trini Calyx when straightened § in. long, hirsute outside; limb 
é ciate 3 in. long, deeply 4-lobed, persistent ; segments obovate- 
both © obtuse, venose, somewhat hirsute inside. Corolla glabrous on 
te tancant tube slender, rather arching ; lobes oval-oblong, scarcely 3 
Sprenate?, Subapiculate, spreading. Anthers }+4in. long, apiculate, 
Preading ; filaments 3 in. long, compressed, linear. Disk glabrous. 
Vules oblong. Style exserted by 1} in., quite glabrous, undivided, 
‘ Scarcely thickened towards the tip. Fruit globose, rather shining, 
